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Katy Trevor is a screenwriter and actress living in London. She graduated from the London Film Academy in 2023 where she was awarded Emerging Screenwriter of the Year. Katy’s award- winning debut short film FRIDAY IS MUSHROOM SOUP, directed by Arnold T. Rice, draws on her experience of working in the home care sector and has reached both BIFA and BAFTA qualifying status and won the Audience award at This is England 2025. Katy is now working on her debut feature film to begin pre-production in 2027. She holds a BA in Creative Writing, and a Master of Arts in Screenwriting.

Lisa Clarkson is a Scottish screenwriter-director and graduate of The National Film and Television School's MA Directing Fiction. Her short film PATERNAL ADVICE premiered at Edinburgh International Film Festival. The film went on to win The Scottish Short Film Prize at Glasgow Short Film Festival 2025, won the BAFTA Scotland 2025 in the Short Film & Animation Category as well as Best Fiction at This is England festival in 2025. Lisa has a number of distinctive projects in development; both film and television.

May Kindred-Boothby is a 2D hand-drawn, animation director and writer based in Bristol. She has been working freelance as an animator for the past 9 years. Her short THE EATING OF AN ORANGE recently won Best Animation Direction at Sundance Film Festival 2025 and Best Animation at This is England 2025. Her new work is bold and colourful. She uses abstract humour to talk about themes of gender, sexuality and freedom of expression. She intends to keep creating more ambitious projects, using unsettlingly juicy surrealism to tackle subjects that she finds important.